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Leveraging acquisitions and aggressively marketing on social platforms TikTok has popularized short-form video content and rapidly scaled its user base. This report examines how TikTok fits into the broader ecosystem under development by parent ByteDance, the competitive landscape for short video, and the strategies being implemented as TikTok moves from scaling to monetization.

Market forecasts and close examination of market demand focusing on total China local design market by devices and seven applications: data processing, wired communication, wireless communication, consumer electronics, industrial electronics, and automotive electronics; top-40 products in this market; and leading products in the four key devices (memory, MCU, logic IC and analog IC).

This Market Tracker provides accurate data and analyses—including market size, forecasts, and market trends—to help clients make better business decisions in the NFV hardware, software, and services market.

Despite the rising adoption of the “as-a-service” approach among building management system (BMS) providers, the transactional revenue model is expected to remain the main source of income for these companies.

The IHS Markit Smartphone Model Market Tracker consists of a comprehensive breakdown and an in-depth analysis report, delivered on a quarterly basis, providing key insights and data on the smartphone industry.

The market for storage equipment certified by the Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) is expected to more than double from 2019 to 2023 as vendors move to offer new products complaint with the organization’s standards.

During China Joy, Oppo, Vivo, Nubia and Xiaomi presented their latest smartphone models for premium gaming in Qualcomm’s Pavilion. Qualcomm introduced Snapdragon Elite Gaming, a set of hardware and software features that "transform premium mobile devices into gaming machines". The technology is available on these smartphone models, and is powered by the Snapdragon 855.

IHS Markit Technology (now part of Informa Tech) have just published the ‘Smart Buildings Business Models Market Brief – 2019’ and we would like to share with you an interesting summary on the different business models currently used by Smart Buildings vendors.

​​This report provides a detailed analysis of business models used in current Smart Buildings developments. It provides insight on how organizations can leverage technologies used in Smart Buildings initiatives to generate revenue.

Sony’s press event did not spark great interest among gamers, partly due to the dispute surrounding Genshin Impact. The game looks very similar to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, from the graphic design to the gameplay. As the Switch will come to China in the very near future, and Breath of the Wild will be one of the first games to be released, the criticism was intensified. However, we have also noticed several other interesting games presented during the event that cater to the Chinese market.

Amid signs of renewed demand growth due to the lessening of trade tensions and the imminent arrival of the peak sales season, global display panel suppliers plan to increase their fab utilization rates.

Malaysia-based online video streaming service iflix has announced that it has secured a new round of funding ahead of a prospective IPO. The company estimated that the total funding will amount to more than $50 million, although an exact amount has not been disclosed. The funding round was led by Fidelity International, while new investors are MNC, Yoshimoto Kogyo and JTBC, together with founder Catcha Group, and strategic shareholders Hearst, Sky and EMC.
Iflix is currently available in 12 countries in Asia – Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Brunei, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Myanmar, Vietnam, Cambodia, Nepal and Bangladesh.

Global OTT video service Netflix launched a low-priced, mobile-screen only plan in India in July 2019.
The plan costs Rs 199 ($2.9) per month. The plan does not include a weekly subscription option although the US company has been testing a weekly subscription option of Rs 65 ($0.94) since April 2019.
The plan has three major limitations compared to a standard Netflix subscription in India;
1. Only one mobile device, smartphone or tablet, can be registered per account.
2. No HD or UHD content will be available.
3. Several features, such as the ability to cast (or mirror) the content from a mobile device to the TV set, are restricted.
Netflix stated in a letter to shareholders that the decision to roll-out a lower-priced mobile-screen plan will help the video service reach a wider user base in the low pay TV ARPU market.
Netflix is also working to expand the range of partnerships it has in India with telcos and pay TV operators.

The Games Market & Publisher Report Series - China present analysis of the Chinese PC online games market trends and evaluates the performance of important publishers acting in the market including Tencent, NetEase, Perfect World, etc. The reports examines both the PC online and mobile games business of these major companies.